The AHA urges doctors to begin screening and treating patients who are still in their 30s, well before the risks of a heart attack and stroke are higher.

Cardiology groups say adults as young as 30 should assess cholesterol risk and consider treatment to prevent heart attacks ...

SIH Herrin Hospital and SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale have earned national recognition for their commitment to providing fast, evidence-based stroke treatment that improves patient outcomes.

Major medical organizations updated the cholesterol playbook for the first time in years, with new risk tools, lower targets ...

The number doctors use to demarcate hypertension keeps going down, a trend applauded by many experts, who point to studies ...

Heart health experts released new guidance to help identify early risk factors for heart disease that go beyond tracking ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association and nine other leading medical associations, today issued an updated guideline for the management of dyslipidemia-abnormal ...

Brainomix, a global leader and pioneer of AI-powered imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, today announced the deployment of its AI imaging platform, Brainomix 360 Stroke, throughout the West ...

Since 2022, the hospital has not been providing the life-saving, clot-dissolving TPA drug and instead sending stroke patients ...

A study tracking women for more than two decades adds to growing evidence that when menopause hormone therapy is started may influence dementia risk later in life.

For primary prevention patients at high risk, such as those with a 10-year risk > 10%, the LDL target is less than 70 mg/dL (class 2a recommendation). For this group, treatment begins with a ...